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Franq Holtzclaw

DEATH: either 1595 or 1619

Rev. James Kemper

Ref: Letter quoted in his great grandfather's notes. He was the 6th child. He was of Walnut-Hills Ohio on 28 Jan 1814.

RESEARCHER: Information provided to T.Mason on 24 Mar 2002 by Jaime Howley [jhowley@twcny.rr.com].  "Both Elnathan and James died from cholera in August 1834.  As you may know, James was the first ordained minister west of the Alleghenies and he founded Lane Seminary (Walnut Oaks, Cincinnati, OH) and hired Lyman Beecher (father of Harriet Stowe Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher and Catherine Beecher) to be president.  Elnathan gave the land and the family also gave money.  In 1834 at the time of their death, Lane was undergoing a crisis.  Again you may know the story.  The trustees were upset by the abolitionist activities of the students, Beecher although an abolitionist himself did not speak out in support of the students and the majority of the students left and went to Oberlin College.  In the 1830's and 1840's there were 4 law suits brought by your ancestor, David Rice Kemper against Lyman Beecher and Calvin Stowe and several others and the trustees of Lane Seminary.  I was wondering if you had any information as to what the law suits were about.  The  information I have found was on a web site about Lane Seminary's library now part of another seminary in Chicago, but it does not say what they were about..  Lane has been defunct a good many years.  I understand the site was in downtown.   The cabin of James and Judith Kemper is on display at a museum.  It was at the zoo before that from sometime in the early 1900's."